{"id":4363,"date":"2023-08-15T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2023-08-15T20:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T01:27:59","slug":"covid-hospitalizations-accelerate-for-fourth-straight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/15\/covid-hospitalizations-accelerate-for-fourth-straight-week\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID hospitalizations accelerate for fourth straight week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CBS News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New COVID-19 hospitalizations<\/a> have accelerated for a fourth straight week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data now shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 10,320 patients in the U.S. were newly hospitalized with COVID-19 for the week ending August 5, according to the figures published Monday<\/a>, an increase of 14.3% from the week before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levels remain far below the summer peak that strained hospitals at this time last year, when 42,813 admissions were reported for the week of August 6, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where are COVID hospital trends worst?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hospitals across the Southeast are continuing to report the nation’s highest rate of COVID-19 admissions<\/a>. In the region spanning Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, 4.58 new patients were reported per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Southeast has also been reporting the highest rate of COVID-19 cases\u00a0among nursing home residents<\/a>. Weekly infections are now close to the worst rates seen during 2021’s summer wave in the region, but below more recent peaks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nationwide, data collected from emergency rooms<\/a> suggests COVID-19 levels have been highest in recent weeks among seniors ages 75 and older, similar to what was seen during last winter’s peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency room visits for children ages 0 to 11 years old have also climbed steeply. Measured as a percentage of all visits in the age group, nationwide COVID-19 rates in these kids are now tied with seniors for the first time in a year. Other CDC data<\/a> suggests visits from the youngest kids, ages 0 to 1 year old, are seeing the steepest increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some parts of the country \u2014 like the region<\/a> spanning Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas \u2014 the share of COVID-19 ER visits involving children ages 0 to 11 have already far surpassed older adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unclear what has driven the steep increase in ER visits from kids. A CDC spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CBS News New COVID-19 hospitalizations have accelerated for a fourth straight week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data now shows. A total of 10,320 patients in the U.S. were newly hospitalized with COVID-19 for the week ending August 5, according to the figures published Monday, an increase of 14.3% from the week before.  Levels remain far below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}